Ovechkin est en passe de devenir le meilleur buteur de tous les temps dans la LNH. Matthews pourra-t-il reproduire les chiffres d’Ovi dans la ligue et se battre pour battre ses records ?
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UNSENSRD
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Matthews won’t be able to. Ovy is scoring at a 50 goal pace into his mid to late thirties, and he’s durable, he doesn’t miss many games. Matthews misses games every season.
Matthews won’t get close to Ovy and Gretzky
Part of Ovechkin’s greatness is that he has stayed remarkably healthy and he has defeated normal age curves. Matthews has been hurt quite a bit, and its unclear if he can beat the age curves the way Ovi has, so I doubt it.
Matthews will probably end up #3 or (maybe) #2 on the American born goals list. Which is an amazing accomplishment on its own.
He won’t come close to Ovi, the man is an anomaly. Not only his goal scoring but he’s an extremely physical player who seems to be indestructible, he never misses games.
Matthews already seems to have a bit of injury history which is somewhat concerning this early into his career. Although, when you score 40 and it’s considered a “down year” I guess anything is possible. I just don’t see him having the durability or longevity to get close to Ovi.
Matthews has too many injuries. Ain’t happening. He’s not scoring 50 at 35.
Even without the injuries Matthews doesnt have the goal scoring ability of Ovi.
It took Matthews 7 seasons before he played those 481 games. In the same time span, Ovechkin played 553 games since despite being a way more physical player somehow still doesn’t get injured. In fact, in just six seasons, Ovie played 475 games.
If we for some reason disregard how odd it is for Ovie to be able to pull 50 goal seasons in his mid thirties and say Matthews will as well – with Matthews’ current pace, he will have played 13% less games which should mean 13% less chances to score points.
Let’s see hits on that list too
Ovechkin looks more solid. Matthews is a great American hockey player though.
Ovechkin has a ring because he didn’t disappear in the playoffs. Matthews is on a milk carton every spring. They are not the same.